Awesome image!! Very nicely processed. Please elaborate on the sub time and amount.
Thanks, Mike
Posted 08 August 2019 - 03:13 PM
Awesome image!! Very nicely processed. Please elaborate on the sub time and amount.
Thanks, Mike
Posted 08 August 2019 - 05:42 PM
Yes the best light pollution filter is the limb of the earth. Our astronomy club has a dark site in Oklahoma about 90 miles north of my house. That's were I go to capture reflection nebula and galaxies. I can do pretty good work from my backyard on emission nebulae. Here is the Lagoon from Bortle 8-9 Plano, Texas captured with the L-eNhance filter on my ZWOASI294MC camera. I don't think I could have done much better from the dark site.
Very impressive. See you at Atoka one day!
Posted 08 August 2019 - 06:53 PM
I Recently started imaging with this filter using a ASI071 on a 3.9 8 inch newt. I am finding with 300 sec exposures at unity gain I am having issues stacking subs in PI and APP. Not sure why this is as I live in bortle 3 skies. The subs look good and seem to have plenty of tight stars.
Posted 08 August 2019 - 07:42 PM
Simply beautiful!!
Posted 08 August 2019 - 09:32 PM
Awesome image!! Very nicely processed. Please elaborate on the sub time and amount.
Thanks, Mike
Mike,
The Lagoon image was captured with 45-120s sub frames. For this bright nebula the red channel (Ha) was very strong compared to the other two channels. To balance things out a bit I first extracted monochrome images from the three color channels and stretched them independently to try to balance the strong red (Ha) channel. I then recombined the color channels to make this image. That trick works a bit like taking different exposure lengths with filters and a monochrome camera, something you cannot do with a OSC camera. I find it works on bright nebula and sometimes on weaker targets.
Posted 08 August 2019 - 09:51 PM
Interesting, thanks for the reply!
Mike
Posted 19 August 2019 - 11:22 AM
Reporting back my first-light experience with l-eNhance under full moon and my white zone backyard.
Indeed no halo at all!
I tested it on the QHY168c. But got some nasty red/blue pixels that I need to get rid of (welcome any suggestions, I am using APP for stacking).
To see the red/blue hot pixels, click here: https://drive.google...iLRY8VLUOl/view
Very happy with the filter for sure.
Edited by mxcoppell, 19 August 2019 - 11:24 AM.
Posted 09 September 2019 - 04:29 PM
Wow some awesome images on this thread. I just received mine today and can't wait to try it out. I am currently using a CLS-CCD filter on my scope combined with my D810A. Should I remove the CLs before imaging or I should piggy back on to it?
Posted 09 September 2019 - 04:34 PM
Wow some awesome images on this thread. I just received mine today and can't wait to try it out. I am currently using a CLS-CCD filter on my scope combined with my D810A. Should I remove the CLs before imaging or I should piggy back on to it?
Remove it.
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